Open Places API

Coverage

Places API for United States.

16,194,652 places in the United States, searchable with one GET request. The largest slice of our index, from national chains to single-location diners.

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One request away.

Search "coffee" near New York (40.7128, -74.006) and get JSON back: names, coordinates, categories, structured addresses, and distances in miles. 

curl -G "https://api.openplacesapi.com/v1/places" \
  --data-urlencode "q=coffee" \
  --data-urlencode "lat=40.7128" \
  --data-urlencode "lon=-74.006" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPEN_PLACES_API_KEY"

Coordinates to try: New York 40.7128, -74.006 · Los Angeles 34.0522, -118.2437 · Chicago 41.8781, -87.6298

What you can build with it.

Travel & itinerary apps

Surface food, sights, and services around hotels and route points across the United States.

"What's nearby" features

Real estate, delivery zones, and store finders: anything that asks what's near a coordinate.

AI agents

Give an agent real United States places instead of hallucinated ones. See the agent guide.

United States coverage FAQ.

Does Open Places API cover the United States?

Yes. 16,194,652 places in the United States are searchable today. Density, freshness, and field completeness vary by location.

Where does the United States place data come from?

From the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset: open data backed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Open Places API follows Overture's monthly release cycle.

Can I add my own places in the United States?

Yes. Account-owned layers let you add private records, correct base data, and suppress places, merged into every search your API keys make, on top of or instead of the Overture base.

What does it cost?

Plans are flat with hard caps: free for 10,000 searches a month, $19 for 30,000, $49 for 100,000, $249 for 1 million. When you hit the cap the API returns a 402 and stops. It never bills an overage.

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Spotlights are editorial deep dives, not the edge of coverage. The API is global wherever the current Overture release has Places data; the coverage page has the full inventory.